Anonymous Encounters

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The rather exhausted wolf lulled her pink tongue leisurely from her retractable mandibles as she cast her ice cold gaze across a vast, gold and green meadow. Or possibly valley, its size was arguably massive. All around the area deep forests stretched for miles. Although, she wasn't sure how far. The obsidian thicket of vegetation she had recently escaped from lay just yards from her haunches. Her spine cast a shiver down into her tail bone at the thought of the dark horrors that were hidden in it's depths and now circled her in. All she had was this gorgeous valley, but she still felt trapped in by the ominous forests, with it's endless array of violent creatures.

"I'll try to avoid any confrontations..."

She murmured to herself and proceeded deeper into the meadow. It's golden grass almost blended with her beautiful, golden metallic coat. Although she was obviously maybe a bit brighter. All thanks to the suns yellow rays in which she felt presumably better with at her back. Unlike the forest enveloping around her. The chilling darkness seemed to reach towards her, allowing for her divine features to contort into a fairly uneasy fixture. Alas she projected her aerodynamic frame into what was possibly  the center of this valley. Her pace simultaneously increased noticably as she neared a miniscule, yet oddly symmetrical pond of clear mountain water. Must have been what was left from the winter time.  As she calibrated her fiery, as unfit as it sounds, eyes dilligantly around the circle she could depicted numerous animal tracks coming and going. Large and small alike, some paw prints twice her own.  -Not good...- She thought as she noted the majority of the larger tracks leading back into that dreadful forest in which she had no intention of being apart of, comparative to her 'good' nature.

Her unknowingly tensed muscles, most likely caused by being alone in a place radiating with ominousness energy, relaxed just enough so her narrow muzzle could dip into the crystal liquid. An immediate refreshing feeling was followed as if she had been suddenly woken up from a daze. She jolted her head upwards again, suddenly more aware of her surroundings, although nothing had changed. Just a simple breeze wafting unknown scents to swirl just past her now dampened nose.

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There were many creatures that could conceal themselves in the seemingly endless foliage that surrounded Lunar Meadow. Though there may have been empires of insects and colonies of predatory animals, there were none so nasty and so capable as the wolf. For there was no monster more terrifyingly close or potentially destructive as the one that was inside of him.

Jester decided this as he dragged himself past the blur of green that had surrounded him for what was certainly an eternity. An extended period of isolation in this wilderness had left him afraid of himself. He could hardly remember the last wolf that he had spoken to, and that was just one of the many reminders that he had grown primitive. He was focused, and simple. It was what had kept him alive this long.

How is it possible to be so alone in a place so full of life?

It was funny in a sick way. Perhaps not the same sickly way that he had grown thin and weary in these woods. Perhaps not in the same way that his light chuckle had turned into a sinister cackle that echoed violently through the trees.

Jester was silenced, in awe, at what was before him. It wasn't the vibrant meadow nor was it the unobstructed skies that absorbed him. It was the creature that swayed through it.

So he wasn't alone after all.

She stood out in this clearing, and that excited him. It wouldn't have been the first time that his eyes had imagined something, or someone. She was different, though. She wasn't a ghostly fiction. She was real, and so was he.

Hesitantly he moved his paw forward into the warmth of light that the meadow had to offer. She might not have noticed him yet, but that didn't stop him from calling out towards her back. Surely he could catch her with a few simple words. They were closer than perhaps she would have wanted them to be, but she wouldn't have heard his whispers.

So he rasped in a voice that even he found to be unfamiliar,

"All alone out here. Seems like you're asking for trouble, wouldn't you say?"

And with his head twisted questioningly, he finished an awful laughter that had begun in the solitude of a million trees.

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Antidote promenaded her head into the direction of a rather malevolent cackle. Her ears swiveling into a similar direction as her head had. Her position of mingling by the circular water hole remained current as only her facial features contorted to show emotion.

Following the sinister laugh was, to no surprise, a voice. Booming with a question as she re-adjusted her stature to face a wolf illuminated with a grey pelt. Standing out miraculously compared to hers. In which had an effect of attracting all light around her for a rather glimmering look.


"You seem to be alone as well."

She retorted back to the wolf, showing no signs of threat unless it may be necessary if the moment for it arose.

OOC-Mine aren't as long. Lmao

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Jester's crooked smile widened as she fully discovered his existence. He tried to lock their eyes together as he took another step forward, he kept his legs bent and his belly low to the ground as though to avoid scaring off a bird.

She seemed less nervous than he would have thought. Perhaps she had heard him before he revealed himself, or perhaps she was stronger than he would have expected. He took another few steps into the meadow before lowering his muzzle towards the ground and inhaling deeply, as though to absorb the peaceful nature of the land.

"You seem to be alone as well."

He opened his jaws rather toothily and snapped back,

"Trouble and I are no strangers."

His eyes looked her over closely from behind the red masks that concealed them.

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Antidote's ears placidly retreated towards her skull, feeling rather out of place. She most likely looked that way as well. For you wouldn't have known, but she was undoubtly lost and far from her 'home'. Although she had left her parents pack at around the meer age of 1.

Shaking away from her thoughts she went over her current position. Trapped in the midst of a desolate forest, with one of its creatures standing in her midst.

"I feel like I have just met trouble."

She stated. Hoping to conceal her somewhat shaky voice as she directed herself a step backwards. Wetting her hind paw in the chilling water now behind her. If he attacked, she would be sure to make a break for it, however she didn't know where she was, let alone where she was going.

"So.. whats your name?"

She tried making small talk, finding a small smile within her lips.

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Jester couldn't help but to let loose another chuckle as she backed away from him. He didn't particularly want to get her too upset, but there was no harm in having a little fun. Having been alone for so long, he had often thought about what he would say or do to the next wolf that he met. Now that he was here, however, he found himself blindly approaching the situation.

"I feel like I have just met trouble."

He thought about that for a moment. Maybe she was right, but trouble could mean a lot of things. There were certain qualities that he could associate with being a disturbance. Surviving could be considered a disturbance. Everything was open to perception, but he was certainly a survivor above all else.

It was her next question that threw him off.

"So.. whats your name?"

He had to think about that one for a little longer. Finally, he could remember.

"Jester." He insisted, leaning forward as always.

"Surely you'll give me a name for a name."

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Planting her front claws into the rather talcum terrain for stability she allowed a nod of her narrow head towards him. Her seemingly flawless tail swishing like a pendulum just at her haunches. When angled in the perfect degrees the light almost made her furs look like rich, solid gold. Topping it off she gingerly revealed her canines in a fairly genuine smile. She wasn't the type of wolf to judge, and thought everyone deserved a chance. It was most likely her good nature kicking in, but none the less. That was how she felt.

"Surely you'll give me a name for a name."

Her name wasn't asked of often, which was of course because she had been a loner since leaving her birth pack. She had grown up trying to be the symbol of her lovely name. Although she never thought she could never live up to something so magical. The epiphany of a cure.

"Antidote."

She said, her pink nose looking as if it was shivering, but actually she was investigating the numerous scents wafting from the male infront of her.

"But ah, could you point me to the direction of.. somewhere other than this forest?"

She questioned, rather terrified. This wolf was utterly unpredictable to her knowledge.

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Jester watched her body language carefully. It was difficult to understand any signal she might have been giving off considering the amount of time he had spent away from other wolves. Still, he searched every movement and every breath for some clue to her intentions.

"Antidote."

He said the word back to himself a few times. It wasn't familiar. It wasn't something that made him feel safe or secure.

Therefore he didn't trust it.

"But ah, could you point me to the direction of.. somewhere other than this forest?"

He found himself laughing rather audibly once more.

"I couldn't tell you where we are. If I could I probably wouldn't be out here.. I couldn't even tell you how long I have been out here.

His head twisted slowly to examine the vastness of the meadow and the infinite green of the forest that surrounded it.

"So it looks like we're stuck out here together."

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She released an exasperated huff of carbon dioxide. Slowly walking towards him, her divine tail swayed with natural ease nonchalantly through the air. Catching a slight breeze here and there as she somewhat circled him intently. No threat was apparent from her body language, but she did come off rather regal as if she were a princess. But after all she was somewhat of regal blood, and considered herself as such.

"Well as long as your the scariest thing I run into, I should survive."

She stated, prowling up to the front of him after patrolling the length of his larger form and snatching a closer glimpse of his facial features.

"Do you live in any particular place?"

She questioned in the hope that, like most wolves, he'd have some type of shelter somewhere. Away from whatever lurked about in these parts. She wasn't used to much other than some cute little bunnies, some squirrels, and a couple peaceful deer.